Thursday, October 25, 2012

Data Loss Prevention

“Information
that resides on laptops, on shared file servers, on portals, or in documentmanagement
systems may be putting organizations at risk. Huge volumes ofinformation—terabytes
and even petabytes today—must be protected. This isespecially
difficult because sensitive information isn’t always properly labeled.
Additionally,in most organizations, there is no way to know or verify
whether sensitivedata may be at risk or to know where it has proliferated
to—even with accesscontrols in place. Making matters more complicated,
sensitive data typically consistsof intellectual propertyassets that are harder to define than
fixed data like creditcard or Social Security numbers”